CVE-2017-1000249 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. This was fixed in commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 (Aug 2017).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
File Project	File

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965
https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000249
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000249

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-11T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:00:40.818Z

Reserved: 2017-09-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-1000249

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-11T19:29:00.200

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-1000249

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-1000249 - Bugzilla

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